High-Pressure Investigation of the Reentrant Nematic - Bilayer-Smectic-Transition
- 12 September 1977
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 39 (11) , 720-723
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.39.720
Abstract
We find that certain cyano Schiff bases and cyanobiphenyls with alkyl or alkoxy end groups exhibiting a bilayer smectic- phase also exhibit a reentrant nematic phase at high pressure. A tentative model of the bilayer smectic phase held in place via the attractive interaction of the alkyl or alkoxy chains accounts for most of our experimental results.
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